Re: Why do they call it wavelength?

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:00:04 -0800, Bob Cain
<arcane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
>Dave H. wrote:
>> How about its permittivity and permeability to EM waves and fields? Funnily
>> enough, if you take the root of the reciprocal of their product, you get the
>> speed of light, too
>
>Or they could be considered as just conversions between mismatched
>defined units rather than properties of space. There is a system of
>units wherein each is 1 and so is c. Then they don't appear in the math
>and their physical meaning is unclear. See:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant

My thought too. It is like circular thinking.

Julian
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